multiple shuttles

On Jun 27, 1:03*am, John Doe wrote:


Seriously though, say they needed two shuttles to go to the station at
the same time, could they launch 2 shuttles inside the same launch
window ?

No. Separate days. Range and tracking systems are set up for one
vehicle. Same with mission control as far as launch support

schreef op 27-6-2008 :
On Jun 27, 1:03*am, John Doe wrote:


Seriously though, say they needed two shuttles to go to the station at
the same time, could they launch 2 shuttles inside the same launch
window ?

No. Separate days. Range and tracking systems are set up for one
vehicle. Same with mission control as far as launch support

Other question:

Normally MCC is at the JSC in Houston, but the LCC at KSC also can be
used as MCC (in case of failing or emergency evacuation of
MCC/Houston).

This almost happened when a hurricane came too close to MCC/Houston a
few missions ago...

So technically there are 2 separate MCC's available?

André wrote:
schreef op 27-6-2008 :
On Jun 27, 1:03 am, John Doe wrote:


Seriously though, say they needed two shuttles to go to the station at
the same time, could they launch 2 shuttles inside the same launch
window ?

No. Separate days. Range and tracking systems are set up for one
vehicle. Same with mission control as far as launch support

Other question:

Normally MCC is at the JSC in Houston, but the LCC at KSC also can be
used as MCC (in case of failing or emergency evacuation of MCC/Houston).

This almost happened when a hurricane came too close to MCC/Houston a
few missions ago...

So technically there are 2 separate MCC's available?

Technically, yes, but that is not the preferred solution if NASA really
were to have two shuttles in space at the same time.

There are multiple flight control rooms in MCC-Houston and they would
simply use two of those.

Jorge R. Frank wrote:

There are multiple flight control rooms in MCC-Houston and they would
simply use two of those.

Is the telecom "system" able to differentiate data/telemetry coming from
2 shuttles (this packet comes from endeavour, that packet comes from
atlantis) ? (similarly, can they target a specific shuttle when sending
commands ?)

On Jun 27, 4:34*pm, John Doe wrote:
Jorge R. Frank wrote:
There are multiple flight control rooms in MCC-Houston and they would
simply use two of those.

Is the telecom "system" able to differentiate data/telemetry coming from
2 shuttles (this packet comes from endeavour, that packet comes from
atlantis) ? (similarly, can they target a specific shuttle when sending
commands ?)

yes and yes

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:16:23 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

There are multiple flight control rooms in MCC-Houston and they would
simply use two of those.

....And besides, they're already doing simultaneous comms between ISS
and the Shuttle when it's in orbit. I suspect they'd do trade-offs
between ISS and one of the Shuttles if a dual mission is required.

OM
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